Whether it’s the drop-jaw inquisitive friends and family get when your older daughter answers “what are you going to do after high school”, or the comments you get at the grocery store insinuating what an “impossible” job you have for caring for more than two children, society’s concept of motherhood and homemaking are constantly being reflected.
The general consensus cannot possibly be that the profession of home-making (meant in its entire sense) is “too much work” per se. After all, most inquirers have a full time job themselves in addition to the work waiting for them when they get home. It’s not work, necessarily, that’s in question.
The notion is that motherhood and homemaking isn’t WORTHY work. A working woman is rarely chided for her strenuous lifestyle, her exhaustion or her stress, if her work is deemed important enough.
But if a woman is spending herself in a job that society doesn’t deem important, she’s regarded as foolish.
Why is this important for us to understand? Because as we raise daughters in a home-hating generation, we must be all the more vigilant to keep truth in front of them, helping them to understand that even though homemaking and raising children is MOST definitely hard work, it’s as worthy as any other profession of her time, gifts and energy.
In fact, if we are going to pour our lives out at all, for any cause, won’t it be best spent being poured into the next generation where our work and efforts are literally immortalized as we invest in the eternal?
Is there more worthy work than shaping the lives of people who will make up the future? (This obvious reality seems to evade the public, who will be directly affected by “the future”.)
Let us not forget to remind our children of this important fact. Building the Kingdom through building the home is most surely worth our being spilled out for. They will be bombarded with the lies that the next generation isn’t worthy of their time and energy. What a clever tactic from the enemy! Be confident, be bold and be excited about proclaiming truth to your children and to a watching world!
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